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Environmental selection of antibiotic resistance genes
1 Feb 2001
Abstract excerpt
Acquisition and further spread of antibiotic resistance determinants among virulent bacterial populations is the most relevant problem for the treatment of infectious diseases. Although mutations in antibiotic target genes (Martinez and Baquero, 2000) were supposed to be the primary cause of antibiotic resistance in the early antibiotic era, it soon became evident that acquisition of antibiotic resistance...
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